Legalwise, an insurer of legal costs, complained that the SABC, in its Speak Out programme had televisionomitted to convey to viewers that it had no legal obligation to hand a cheque for damages won in a legal suit to a person whom it had insured against legal costs. It had merely done so on camera as a gesture of goodwill and not because it had a legal obligation to do so. The attorney involved had this obligation since the damages had been paid into his trust account.

The BCCSA held that an opportunity be granted to the CEO of LegalWise to explain this on air. If this is done to the satisfaction of the BCCSA, the matter would be regarded as settled.

[2012] JOL 28609 (BCCSA)

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